Jacqueline Rose - Biography

Jacqueline Rose (born in 1949 in London) is a British academic who is currently Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London.

Life and work

Rose was born into a non-practicing Jewish family. Her elder sister was the philosopher Gillian Rose. She is known for her work on the relationship between psychoanalysis, feminism and literature. She is a graduate of St Hilda's College, Oxford and gained her higher degree (mâitrise) from the Sorbonne and her doctorate from the University of London.

Her book Albertine, a novel from 2001, is a feminist variation on Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.

She is best known for her critical study on the life and work of American poet Sylvia Plath, The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, published in 1991. In the book, Rose offers a postmodernist feminist interpretation of Plath's work, and criticise's Plath's husband Ted Hughes and other editors of Plath's writing. Rose describes the hostility she experienced from Hughes and his sister (who acts as literary executor to Plath's estate) including threats received from Hughes about some of Rose's analysis of Plath's poem "The Rabbit Catcher". The Haunting of Sylvia Plath was critically acclaimed, and itself subject to a famous critique by Janet Malcolm in her book The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.

Rose is a regular broadcaster on and contributor to the London Review of Books.

Rose's States of Fantasy was the inspiration for composer Mohammed Fairouz's Double Concerto of the same title. .

Criticism of Israel

Rose is highly critical of Zionism, describing it as "[having] been traumatic for the Jews as well as the Palestinians."

Bibliography

• The Case of Peter Pan, or, the Impossibility of Children's Fiction, 1984
• Sexuality in the Field of Vision, 1986, Verso
• The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, 1991, Virago
• Why War – Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Return to Melanie Klein, 1993, Blackwell (co-authored)
• States of Fantasy (Clarendon Lectures in English), 1998, larendon Press [OUP]
• On Not Being Able to Sleep – Essays on Psychoanalysis in the Modern World, 2003, Chatto
• The Question of Zion, 2005, Princeton University Press
• The Last Resistance, 2007, Verso

External links

• "Those opposing a cultural and academic boycott of Israel should examine the South African precedent, says Jacqueline Rose." Open Democracy September 4 2005 Jacqueline Rose's position on an academic and cultural boycott of Israel
• "This land is your land", The Observer, August 18, 2002 - Jacqueline Rose's views on the state of Israel
• "What Zionism is Not, a review of The Question of Zion from a Zionist perspective, The Weekly Standard, November 14, 2005
• Interview, The Guardian, January 4, 2003
• "The Ideas Interview: Jacqueline Rose" - John Sutherland, The Guardian, November 28, 2005
• Interview with Jacqueline Rose, Open Democracy, August 18, 2005
• Israel and Resistance: an interview with Jacqueline Rose, State of Nature, Winter 2008
• Video of Jacqueline Rose chairing a discussion with Avi Shlaim and Shlomo Sand at the Frontline Club, London, November 12, 2009